Black History Month

Specials, series, and segments for Feb.

Race and the Space Race: How the greatest technical achievement in the last 50 years advanced civil rights. Narrated by Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space. From Richard Paul and Soundprint.

Coming Jan. 18: Backstory tells us: What did the first inauguration look like? Why do presidents-elect take their oaths on Bibles, and why did Teddy Roosevelt refuse to do so? And more. Hear the promo.

Specials Galore

FREE: Generation Putin is an hour special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Hosted by Brooke Gladstone and freshly reported by the Seattle Globalist.

The avant garde art world pushed into the mainstream 100 years ago. Culture Shock 1913 captures the intensity, from Sara Fishko and WNYC.

Coming soon from the Kitchen Sisters: Hidden Kitchens: The Raw and the Cooked, an hour-long journey into the world of clandestine cooking, rituals, and traditions. With host Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand.

Other Good Stuff

Youth radio producers shared an impressive 452 (!) new stories on PRX in 2012. Here are Generation PRX’s favorites, showcasing what we think makes youth radio great: honest, format-breaking and original work.

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